Looks like you're accomplishing quite a bit. Planting trees around my area I have to put them in a hardwire basket or the voles will eat the roots.
Been there with the fire coming up close. How fast things could change. When our crazy neighbor to the South started the sage on fire, a North wind kept it almost standing still till fire crews showed up or it would have been on us. Odd it is so dry in your area. Course there are/were fires burning in West Virginia already.
I live in Northern Wisconsin and we had no snow this year to speak of, so basically it’s been a drought.
I watched a front that normally would’ve bring rain and snow completely fall apart moving north soon after reaching Central Wisconsin, the whole front fell apart.
Vilas county is supposed is a resort county like most of the surrounding ones are with thousands of lakes. I’m afraid they’re going to try to burn it..
The forest are in bad shape from the constant fallout from Geo engineering chaff from Air Force or other solar remediation projects.
The lakes are extremely low, and the seasonal swamps are in empty from the lack of snow melt.
The media and gov will continue to shriek CLIMATE CATASTROPHE! while calling their weather modification and geoengineering work "conspiracy theories", while continuing to deny that the Hunga Tonga volcano explosion sending 4trillion gallons of water vapor into the stratosphere had any effect on climate.
Oh no, William, I'm so sorry! But maybe not, since the consequences were not catastrophic and it seems you found a solid community who had your back.
After my son-in-law's search and rescue experience, he's trying out a career change with a clerical position at the fire dept. He was going to volunteer but they had a minimum wage job where he'll get to know people and figure out if he wants to pursue it. He hasn't been able to find a mechanical engineer job except in San Francisco, and this is 10 min from their house.
A phrase that came back to me often as a parent was "Close calls are God's choicest blessings." I had plenty of those kind of scary blessings. Glad this went okay for you and your land.
I'm thinking I might become a volunteer fire-fighter, after meeting these guys. They are the very sort of men I would want to know, as chaos increases globally.
I have a friend with a mechanical engineer degree. He could only find jobs traveling on oil crews, or at power plants. Sad state when someone so useful cannot find work.
As scary as that fire was for a moment, I'm glad it worked out and gives me an opportunity to see why fire is so very important to the land.
Yes! He had a job right out of college designing prosthetic devices that help with heavy lifting, and is on a couple of patents. But he left after his mother died and he wanted to help out his dad with his business installing restaurant equipment. That was over a year ago and it's been very discouraging. They also moved out of Oakland, which is good for them and bad for jobs.
Now he'll be working in the community where they live, along with other guys who like physical work and, likely, nature too. I think it will give him more buddies to do things like hiking and snowboarding, so he won't be taking that risk alone.
I am glad that you are OK. This eclipse and Merc Retro have been showing up in analogous ways across my friends and aquaintances, mostly manifesting as fires and electrical issues. I'm living without electric in my trailer right now because the converter/breaker box decided to blow up Friday. I heard the crackle of electricity and could smell smoke- very freaky as I have just spent a year recovering from another fire in this place. Then the breakers blew and that was it. I have a guy coming in today to look at it so I can order replacement parts. I just wish it would have waited for another few weeks, I have a newer bigger trailer I am going to bring in but I have to clear out a bunch of stuff first (my friend did a tarot reading on it, funny, all the stuff I need to clear is stuff that is connected with my deceased husband, I guess it is time for the Fool to move on.)
I hope things recover quickly at your place, I'm certainly glad that it was no more destructive than it was. Good luck with your orchard and planting. Perhaps that is astrological as well, one of my best friends here put in a bunch of bare root trees, pears and plums. Take care, here's to surviving eclipse season!
A breaker box exploding? Since when does that happen, outside of a lightning strike? Methinks whatever your deceased husband was, he doesn't have that kind of power!....but definitely worth taking some extraordinary measures to clear that energy regardless.
I hear another container ship under another critical bridge lost power recently. Somehow I don't think that is eclipse or coincidence. More like rogue forces taking advantage of eclipse, merc retro etc.
One of the techs I contacted thought it might have been a power surge of some kind. I know it wasn't my husband, that wouldn't be his style, LOL. He was more of a water guy.
This has been a weird and tough eclipse and the retro and comet aren't helping at all. I just hope it passes and we find our selves on higher ground as this tide goes out again.
Yikes. That fire must have been so scary, and I'm glad it didn't become something worse. I once had a cabin in Danbury, Wi. The firefighters were volunteer and on call. Good luck to you, I admire your goals trying to work the land and survive on your family property.
Thank you! I'm not surviving here, as much as it is a peaceful refuge in a world going mad. Infrastructure here is not set up yet to thrive, and I am debating setting it up, this far out. If fossil fuels are hard to come by, this place becomes very isolated. Which may be a good thing but maybe not. This orchard is as much for the food, as for clippings to become new trees, a source of income and barter, long term.
I get the "world gone mad". I'm bent on pooling resources as the only way to make it, but finding team player(s) is difficult. I had hoped to retire and build a small house on property with my adult daughter in Oregon. But they changed their mind and moved. My other daughter won't leave South Mpls. It's a waste for me to pay high property taxes when pooling resources and even getting a mother in law apartment with them seems smarter. I'm reconsidering the Wi cabin thing.😀 A City dweller trying to make it in a rural environment seems challenging. Whst about cherry trees? I made some good cocktail shrubs with fruits.
Looks like you're accomplishing quite a bit. Planting trees around my area I have to put them in a hardwire basket or the voles will eat the roots.
Been there with the fire coming up close. How fast things could change. When our crazy neighbor to the South started the sage on fire, a North wind kept it almost standing still till fire crews showed up or it would have been on us. Odd it is so dry in your area. Course there are/were fires burning in West Virginia already.
I can't remember the last time we had a lot of rain. It has been a few years.
Voles aren't a problem, but we do have an issue with pocket gophers.
I live in Northern Wisconsin and we had no snow this year to speak of, so basically it’s been a drought.
I watched a front that normally would’ve bring rain and snow completely fall apart moving north soon after reaching Central Wisconsin, the whole front fell apart.
Vilas county is supposed is a resort county like most of the surrounding ones are with thousands of lakes. I’m afraid they’re going to try to burn it..
The forest are in bad shape from the constant fallout from Geo engineering chaff from Air Force or other solar remediation projects.
The lakes are extremely low, and the seasonal swamps are in empty from the lack of snow melt.
The media and gov will continue to shriek CLIMATE CATASTROPHE! while calling their weather modification and geoengineering work "conspiracy theories", while continuing to deny that the Hunga Tonga volcano explosion sending 4trillion gallons of water vapor into the stratosphere had any effect on climate.
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprecedented-amount-of-water-into-stratosphere/
Oh no, William, I'm so sorry! But maybe not, since the consequences were not catastrophic and it seems you found a solid community who had your back.
After my son-in-law's search and rescue experience, he's trying out a career change with a clerical position at the fire dept. He was going to volunteer but they had a minimum wage job where he'll get to know people and figure out if he wants to pursue it. He hasn't been able to find a mechanical engineer job except in San Francisco, and this is 10 min from their house.
A phrase that came back to me often as a parent was "Close calls are God's choicest blessings." I had plenty of those kind of scary blessings. Glad this went okay for you and your land.
I'm thinking I might become a volunteer fire-fighter, after meeting these guys. They are the very sort of men I would want to know, as chaos increases globally.
I have a friend with a mechanical engineer degree. He could only find jobs traveling on oil crews, or at power plants. Sad state when someone so useful cannot find work.
As scary as that fire was for a moment, I'm glad it worked out and gives me an opportunity to see why fire is so very important to the land.
Yes! He had a job right out of college designing prosthetic devices that help with heavy lifting, and is on a couple of patents. But he left after his mother died and he wanted to help out his dad with his business installing restaurant equipment. That was over a year ago and it's been very discouraging. They also moved out of Oakland, which is good for them and bad for jobs.
Now he'll be working in the community where they live, along with other guys who like physical work and, likely, nature too. I think it will give him more buddies to do things like hiking and snowboarding, so he won't be taking that risk alone.
I am glad that you are OK. This eclipse and Merc Retro have been showing up in analogous ways across my friends and aquaintances, mostly manifesting as fires and electrical issues. I'm living without electric in my trailer right now because the converter/breaker box decided to blow up Friday. I heard the crackle of electricity and could smell smoke- very freaky as I have just spent a year recovering from another fire in this place. Then the breakers blew and that was it. I have a guy coming in today to look at it so I can order replacement parts. I just wish it would have waited for another few weeks, I have a newer bigger trailer I am going to bring in but I have to clear out a bunch of stuff first (my friend did a tarot reading on it, funny, all the stuff I need to clear is stuff that is connected with my deceased husband, I guess it is time for the Fool to move on.)
I hope things recover quickly at your place, I'm certainly glad that it was no more destructive than it was. Good luck with your orchard and planting. Perhaps that is astrological as well, one of my best friends here put in a bunch of bare root trees, pears and plums. Take care, here's to surviving eclipse season!
Take care too!
A breaker box exploding? Since when does that happen, outside of a lightning strike? Methinks whatever your deceased husband was, he doesn't have that kind of power!....but definitely worth taking some extraordinary measures to clear that energy regardless.
I hear another container ship under another critical bridge lost power recently. Somehow I don't think that is eclipse or coincidence. More like rogue forces taking advantage of eclipse, merc retro etc.
One of the techs I contacted thought it might have been a power surge of some kind. I know it wasn't my husband, that wouldn't be his style, LOL. He was more of a water guy.
This has been a weird and tough eclipse and the retro and comet aren't helping at all. I just hope it passes and we find our selves on higher ground as this tide goes out again.
Yikes. That fire must have been so scary, and I'm glad it didn't become something worse. I once had a cabin in Danbury, Wi. The firefighters were volunteer and on call. Good luck to you, I admire your goals trying to work the land and survive on your family property.
Thank you! I'm not surviving here, as much as it is a peaceful refuge in a world going mad. Infrastructure here is not set up yet to thrive, and I am debating setting it up, this far out. If fossil fuels are hard to come by, this place becomes very isolated. Which may be a good thing but maybe not. This orchard is as much for the food, as for clippings to become new trees, a source of income and barter, long term.
I get the "world gone mad". I'm bent on pooling resources as the only way to make it, but finding team player(s) is difficult. I had hoped to retire and build a small house on property with my adult daughter in Oregon. But they changed their mind and moved. My other daughter won't leave South Mpls. It's a waste for me to pay high property taxes when pooling resources and even getting a mother in law apartment with them seems smarter. I'm reconsidering the Wi cabin thing.😀 A City dweller trying to make it in a rural environment seems challenging. Whst about cherry trees? I made some good cocktail shrubs with fruits.
City dwellers are mostly welcome, as long as they have skills and don't act better than thou....
Cherry trees here are mostly sour. You need cherry bushes for sweetness, but a lot of the sweet ones don't grow fast.
Wow. Glad you got out safely, William. And I love your final positive take on this event.